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Sat 12 Dec 2008Tainted milk trial accused could face death penalty
TWO MEN have gone on trial in China accused of making and selling the poisonous chemical at the centre of a tainted milk scandal blamed for killing six children and sickening hundreds of thousands more, writes Clifford Coonanin Beijing
In pictures broadcast on state television, Zhang Yujun and Zhang Yanzhang were led into a courtroom in handcuffs, their heads bowed, to be questioned by three judges in Shijiazhuang Intermediate People's Court in Hebei province.
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